Fox Host Confronts House Republicans For Running A Do-Nothing Congress

Fox News’s Chris Wallace challenged House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and the GOP-controlled House for failing to pass key appropriations before the government runs out of money in September, demanding to know why the party is wasting time holding its 40 Obamacare repeal vote and pursuing other highly partisan partisan measures.

“Rightly or wrongly, none of the bills you passed is going to become law,” Wallace told Cantor on Fox News Sunday. “You have only passed four of 12 appropriations bills you are supposed to pass. We face a government shut down in the fall. Is this the best time to spend your time, passing bills that won’t become law?”

Cantor responded by accusing President Obama of delivering campaign speeches and failing to consider measures the House has already voted on. But Wallace wouldn’t hear it, reminding Cantor that the GOP couldn’t advance a comprehensive Farm Bill and had to pull a transportation funding measure after moderate House Republicans balked at its deep cuts. “Why not do what the House is supposed to do?” he pressed. Watch it:

The 113th Congress left Friday for a five-week recess, after passing just 22 bills that were sent to Obama in the first eight months of 2013 -the smallest number in history. “You don’t have common ground with the president and you don’t have common ground with the Senate Republican leadership,” an exasperated Wallace told Cantor. “Aren’t we headed for a train wreck?”